Resources

The following spreadsheets are being developed to support info sharing, comparison, and collaboration. Please add your repository's information.

Documentation Repository

Tools We Use

Early brainstorming that led to the eventual creation of the resources above:

This section of our wiki is a place for members to compile resources. This list combines resources created by members of institution or your favorites created by other organizations.

Types of resources may include but not be limited to:

Outreach and Education

• Deconstruction of finding aid (Amy A. mentioned that SAA has a really good handout/flyer that explains finding aids)
• Guides on how to find or use our digital collections
• Personal Digital Archiving Best Practices
• Elevator pitches to describe archives

Templates

• Proposal to our respective administrations for cost sharing
• Evaluation criteria for campus-wide archival description management system
• Evaluation criteria for measuring the effectiveness of internal archival description work processes

Research/Environmental Scan

• What has been done to reconcile or marry item-level access to archival description (aggregate-level)
• Which special collections are best represented in digital library consortia
• Incorporating digital objects into finding aids
• EAC-CPF